Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 558 444 501
Rank change year-on-year -114 +57 +37
Contract jobs citing Packer 36 26 43
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.086% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.65% 0.69% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 30
10th Percentile £465 £448 £453
25th Percentile £500 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £509
Median % change year-on-year - +12.97% -18.56%
75th Percentile £675 £629 £584
90th Percentile £682 £738 £904
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £511
% change year-on-year -4.35% +12.63% -18.32%

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,576 3,766 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.35% 15.80% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,833 2,585 3,256
10th Percentile £313 £313 £263
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +0.48% -9.13%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -7.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 36 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £35.69 £21.39 £18.89
Median hourly rate £56.50 £33.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% +23.15% -48.39%
75th Percentile £69.06 £63.40 £50.13
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.48 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £28.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year +92.98% -5.00% -45.45%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -69 16 £650 +13.04% 4
North of England -69 9 £513 -29.31% 3
Yorkshire -55 4 £513 -29.31% 1
North East -26 3 £500 +31.58% 1
North West -39 2 £575 -23.33% 1
South East -53 2 £615 +28.66%
South West -24 1 £450 -10.00% 1
West Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 - -
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
1 2 (5.56%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (55.56%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) GitHub
3 15 (41.67%) Azure
4 9 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (16.67%) Azure AKS
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 4 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (8.33%) AWS KMS
10 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
10 3 (8.33%) Serverless
11 2 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
11 2 (5.56%) Datadog
11 2 (5.56%) IaaS
11 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.89%) DNS
2 4 (11.11%) Firewall
3 3 (8.33%) PCoIP
3 3 (8.33%) SSL
4 2 (5.56%) DHCP
4 2 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (5.56%) VPN
4 2 (5.56%) WAN
5 1 (2.78%) HTTP
5 1 (2.78%) Network Security
5 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.78%) Redis
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (25.00%) GitLab
2 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
3 6 (16.67%) Git
4 4 (11.11%) JIRA
5 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 8 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
3 8 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (19.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Lead
8 2 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
8 2 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Network Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Wintel Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) VMware Engineer
9 1 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.33%) OpenGL
2 3 (8.33%) Qt
3 1 (2.78%) cloud-init
3 1 (2.78%) Kafka
3 1 (2.78%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
3 1 (2.78%) OpenID
3 1 (2.78%) SAML
3 1 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) CUDA
1 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 3 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.78%) CMDB
3 1 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.78%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (66.67%) Linux
2 17 (47.22%) Windows
3 5 (13.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.78%) Unix
5 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) DevOps
2 24 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 20 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (47.22%) Agile
5 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (22.22%) Configuration Management
7 7 (19.44%) Observability
8 5 (13.89%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.89%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (11.11%) High Availability
9 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 4 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (8.33%) Coaching
10 3 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (8.33%) Mentoring
10 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
11 2 (5.56%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 13 (36.11%) Bash
3 9 (25.00%) Python
4 5 (13.89%) C#
4 5 (13.89%) SQL
5 3 (8.33%) Groovy
6 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) C
7 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (61.11%) SC Cleared
1 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.56%) CCNA
3 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) RHCA
4 1 (2.78%) RHCE
4 1 (2.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (2.78%) QA
System Software
1 14 (38.89%) Docker
2 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (5.56%) Squid
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (5.56%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 29 (80.56%) Terraform
2 26 (72.22%) Ansible
3 17 (47.22%) Kubernetes
4 4 (11.11%) Consul
5 3 (8.33%) Grafana
5 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.56%) Puppet
6 2 (5.56%) SCCM
7 1 (2.78%) Argo
7 1 (2.78%) Nessus
7 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.78%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Dynatrace
2 5 (13.89%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) NVIDIA
3 3 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (8.33%) Trend Micro
4 2 (5.56%) HP
4 2 (5.56%) Leostream
4 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) PagerDuty
4 2 (5.56%) Ping Identity
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) Ariba
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.78%) Tanium
5 1 (2.78%) Tenable